LJ Idol week 9: Licentian

Earth, New United States, October 2, year 2deltaQ

Cynthia Zhang had been to the White House twice since her company had acquired the gray planet, Licentian. She'd originally named it after her company, but the name hadn't stuck long, especially after the pictures of the planetary sky had come back from the first official exploration. Everyone called her new planet the Gray Planet because its sky was the color of summer thunderstorms, though it hadn't rained on the planet since its discovery in the late deltaP's. A discovery that wouldn't have happened without the generous donation from Cynthia Zhang's company. The planet was a barren wasteland upon its discovery, filled with wide, open plains that curved in the horizon. Everything about the planet was dead and gray, and the name stuck.

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